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Document number

FGDC-STD-002.5

Maintenance authority

U.S. Geological Survey

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this project is to develop a profile of SDTS,
through the convergence of the Draft FIPS Part 5 Raster Profile of
SDTS, the ISO/IEC Committee Draft 12087-5 Basic Image Interchange
Format (BIIF) raster transmission standards, and the GeoTIFF version
1.0 specification. This Raster Profile and Extensions, will expand the
applicability of the SDTS raster profile to broaden the utility of the
SDTS transfer format, providing a vehicle to enhance data sharing and
to reduce redundant data production.

SCOPE

The SDTS Part 5: Raster Profile and Extensions contains
specifications of a profile for use with geo-referenced two dimensional
raster data, and excludes vector data and three dimensional and higher
dimension raster data. It is intended to provide a common transfer
format to be used for interchange of raster image and raster grid data
among all members of the data producer and user community. This profile
is intended to replace the existing Draft FIPS SDTS Part 5: Raster
Profile. The SDTS Part 5 Raster Profile and Extensions falls into the
"Transfer Standard" type as defined by the FGDC Standards working Group
(SWG) Standards Reference Model.